Sentences with phrase «how pseudoscience»

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Pseudoscience never sees the need to change, no matter how much evidence piles up against a theory.

How can we make intelligent decisions about our lives if we don't understand the difference between the myths of pseudoscience and the testable hypotheses of science?

I call creationism «pseudoscience» not because its proponents are doing bad science — they are not doing science at all — but because they threaten science education in America, they breach the wall separating church and state, and they confuse the public about the nature of evolutionary theory and how science is conducted.

This was the message I heard at the Forensic Science Research Evaluation Workshop held May 26 — 27 at the AAAS headquarters in Washington, D.C. I spoke about pseudoscience but then listened in dismay at how the many fields in the forensic sciences that I assumed were reliable (DNA, fingerprints, and so on) in fact employ unreliable or untested techniques and show inconsistencies between evaluators of evidence.

Dara O'Briain tells Helen Thomson how he went from the big bang to the big stage, and why he just can't stand pseudoscience.

Phrenological societies and journals sprang up to explain how to read heads, but by the 20th century the field had been dismissed as pseudoscience.

Buss is happy to distance himself from Ley's world view and his reminiscences of the intellectual climate and rise of pseudoscience in Nazi Germany, but he doesn't offer the reader enough historical context to understand how those views might have taken hold.

However, there are some pretty interesting tidbits (beyond the pseudoscience) which suggest how / why it might work, in the right context.

Sure enough, this is not any pseudoscience, but how hops herbs estrogen reaches the beer is actually examined, and studies confirm that beer contains phyto - oestrogens.

Penny Lane (Our Nixon) talked to us about the importance of pacing in her creative nonfiction exploration of pseudoscience, why they used animated re-enactments, and how to think about documentary film.

So, how would increasing the CO2 concentration not reduce what is radiated from the surface according to your pseudoscience?

Crichton is largely wrong about how science makes progress (but Lakatos, while improving on Popper's description of how science progresses, hardly proved him wrong about what * is * scientific), but he surely isn't wrong to suggest that scientific faddism is as prevalent as pseudoscience.

One wonders how familiar the 240 authors of the 2013 draft National Assessment are with Karl Popper's famous essay on the nature of science and its distinction from «pseudoscience.»

The article just goes to show how thoroughly paleoclimatology has become an accepted pseudoscience.

You can be the biggest, most risible assclown in the history of junk statistics and pseudoscience but so long as you can somehow cobble together a half - way plausible paper, no matter how inept your methodology, which helps prop up the vast man - made global warming industry then you have it made: the President of the USA will Tweet you; your University will back you to the hilt; your colleagues will rally round you; you will get a very favourable write - up in the Guardian (and myriad other alarmist publications); your critics will be sidelined and ignored.

TEDx has recently been used as a platform for pseudoscience, and in response they have published an open letter full of good advice on how non experts can spot pseudoscience.

How does one distinguish between science and pseudoscience, between true science and cargo - cult science?

In regards to how this case should be handled, I would like to point out to a precedent on the opposite side of the science / pseudoscience divide: Kurt Mix, an engineer who helped to shut down the gushing oil after the Deepwater Horizon explosion, was indicted for deleting few text messages that he exchanged with his supervisor.

Ironically, Giaever defines «pseudoscience» as only seeking evidence to confirm one's desired hypothesis, which is precisely how Giaever himself has behaved with respect to climate science.

A good paper describing how the tactics of climate contrarians fit into a general pattern of pseudoscience is HERE.